In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes many universal themes to make a classic novel, explaining the life in 1920's. In the novel, well-off citizens live everyday without care, celebrate every weekend by getting drunk and overall just live a reckless lifestyle. The way these people live is represented in the novel by Fitzgerald, who emphasizes the life of Nick Carrway, a single stockbroker living in New York, and shows us the world ... conception of himself" (Trask 3). Fitzgerald used all he could take advantage of showing irony. The Great Gatsby uses satire its through characters....

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Money may be able to buy ones happiness but not necessarily satisfaction in life. Fitzgerald's characters in "Winter Dreams" and Great Gatsby had money, but not satisfaction throughout their life. One can have satisfying materials, do satisfying things, and obtain satisfying qualities. Characters in "Winter Dreams" and Three of the most satisfying materials that a person could own is a home, money, and a car. At least one of these items is essential for a person no matter where they live. The home is the most satisfying material that a person could own. A home is a place that one can go to res...

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... 's work all had similar plots and themes. They were often about a poor man trying to win the heart of a rich girl. A lot of his novels also mirrored his life and the downward spiral of his marriage with Zelda. F. Scott celebrated youth in his novels and that's what made them so great. He captured the idea of the great American Dream and the idea of true love and his ... a new novel when death struck him. He died a forgotten name, but many say he knew that when the time came fame would once again light up Fitzgerald's name - and it did. After Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, he became a...

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• Grade Level: High School